Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1887 — Page 6

IHE INDIANA BT ATE BKKT1WKL WEDNEBDA? FEBRUARY 9, 1887.

THE FARM BUDGET.

Facts Atont ocl Objections to the Thresher Good Makers. cae Grass a Chance Feed the Coirs Well l!uttr Carrots I'lp Cranberries lam And Ilocse Illot. Facts Abont Wocl. -ft rairie Farmer. The estimated clips of English anl Irish wools were as follows, in the years named: Year. Lb. Year. Lb. 142 Ifis.niO.OrO lv-j !.,( 0,000 15S.G''0C) 1M 1 .N,000,r-)0 3 MO.... ......IIS.Ca'O.CjOO 1M 1:. 0,000 lfeftl -..liSiW.ClK) 155 l.;6,ii'J0,O0 The exports of English and Irish wools up io December 1" to all parts of the world, in 1?.VG, w ere 21 217, 43 pounds, out of which the United States took II ,9:15. 400 pounds. The estimated wool clips in the United States for the last year were as follows: Year. Lbs. Year. L. i3............ .. 3-jo.4-.tf.ooo iv .....r).f.)o,o Jfc 3U7,5O0,000 1... :2,30j,0JO For the eleven months of HSG from January 1 to November 20 the United States imported 117.33G.919 pounds of wool. As compared with 1SS5, the Texas wool clip wa-s AOCO.OOO pounds short in 13SG, the Colorado and New Mexico clip 4,000,000 pounds in excess of 1SS5, and the California clip 3.500,0 JO pounds greater in 18; than in 18v3. Objections to the Thresher. f Correspondence Country Gentlemm.J I wish to pive my experience, as, täte it one year with another, threshed corn will heat and spoil. For many years I have husked corn by hand with til the troub'e f sore Cngers and cracked hand?, coll, frosty roomings anl bad weather; and many a moonlight night I have husked corn till 12 o'clock and sometimes 3 o'clock in the mornice. This was hard work, but I did it many time. I finally pave up raising corn and grew peas instead. Sc I got rid of husking. In this way I did not have corn fodder, and I could not keep my land clean, nor could I grow so good a crop after peas as after corn. In the year 1S77 I had twelve acres of corn. I conld not find help to husk it, so I bought a husking machine, and had four men to help, and we husked the twelve acres in three days. I had about 1,000 bushels of corn in as good shape as any man could put it silk and ausk all picked oil cleaD, and stalks left in good shape. A little was shelled, and, being dry, I took it to mill. I have used this machine ten years. Some years the season was very damp, and then the shelled corn ha.I to be taken care of, or it would heat and spoil. Put the good corn in a corn-crib and It keeps well, if it is eorted over and the poor corn fed out. To-day there ars twelve acres of cora in my barn. It was put there the last week of October. I have been doing my lall work, letting the corn go till I had more time. It was tnrown up in the bay with a horse hayfork, taking five or six shocks at a pitch, and then moved away the same as wheat or other grain. It has kept well, bein,; very dry when put In barn so dry that I had the shocks tied with wool twine. The other diy I began huskies, but broke the machine and have cot got it repaired j et. I hope to get the corn husked scon. Five years ago I had a lot of corn in the month of February. As it seemed to be very dry I shelLed it with the corn-sheller and p it it in the granary. After it had been there rix weeks I examined it and found it was heating badly, and sisty bushels were sroii8 1. I fear that threshed corn will spoil la the erne way. Making Good Milken. No matter what breed you lave, sayi a writer in the Practical Farmer, eometh'n further is necessary iu order to reach ths best success in raising good milkers. Goo I blcod, -whether Shorthorn. Jersey, Dsvoa, Ayreshire, grade r native, 13 not everything, tut lies at the foundation. Something en rot come fiom nothing. Treatment in raising a milker should be something different from that in raising a beef animal or an animal for labor. Eegin as soon as the calf is a day old. bee that it lias suüicient to eat imd i3 aindly treated and regularly at'.ende J tO. NtVer pamrf Or overfeedf v-ui gjre lt good, generous food, to cause a regular, early and steady growth. Accustom it to ba handled, tut not to such r.rj extent as to acquire objectionable habits as a cot, bat ratter t be fond 0l the presence of the keeper. Kindness helps to Cieaie a quiet disposition so important in a dairy cow, and this education must begin when the Cllf i3 young. Any habits acquired when young are apt to cling to the cow when gr jwn. For a miiker I would have the heifer came in at Vwo years old. She is then old enough to become a coy. I would not, as a rule, a'! w her to go tarrow, but milk her np to wi.'-in a few weeks of calving, even if I did not obtain but little at a Hulking. Acovthus trained will give more milk and be more likely to hold out longer in milk if her after care is -.sdicious and liberal, as it shoull be. Such treatment tend3 to form the habit of giving milk, and, as we know, habit is a sort of second nature. Couple the heifer with an older bull one two or three years older than she is is preferable to a yearling and better stock is likely to come from sucb. After the teifer has come in her feed shoull be regular and liberal. Good clover hay is the best cf ail, but we all may not have this for still feed; then we must make up what is lacking in sca.8 concentrated food, such as oatmeal, abort?, oilnieal or the like, but great care and good judgment must be used rot to overbed. Civ the rass a ISetter Chance (Practical Farmer. J It may well be doubted if the possible value of the gracs crop is appreciated by tiia majority of s'ock-raisers. This rt salts partly from the facility, the absence of litr and expense, with which the pasture crop U grown and secured. While plowing aal planting and cultivation are going forward to get the cereal crop ready for the harvest, without any such care the self carpeted pastures wave their welcome, which is ttgtxlj heeded by all the beaäts ot te field, Uut the failure, to api;;:ite the grass crop at in fall value la largely due to the fact that "only in exceptiocal iEt.tiiii.ts are maximuaa'result-j secured. In localities where lauds are highpriced, and wbere com plain ta of inadequate returns are most frequently heard, it ia possible for one to ride lor hours without finding a pasture from which' tha b;st practicable results are secured. Here inadequate seed leaves half the surface exposed. There, too. early or too heavy cropping baa k'lled half the struglin blades, while another field shows the scars cf wounds froa the trea I of animals when the surface was wet and soft. Even under this average ill-treatment pastures "hold their own" on the yearly balance sheet of the stock-raising farm. "What would the record be it grasj received at the owners' hand3 the tame cartful consideration aid treatment that is accorded to the acres of corn and oats and other cereal and rjot crops? There is some difficulty in preparing a comparative estimate of the feeding value of grass and the cereal crops. Throughout a large portion of the country the use of the one is precluded daring the winter season, while the others are available the year through when the cost of storage is added. The late James N. Erown of Sangamon County, a pioneer in the introduction of improved live stock into Illinois, who-te magnificent pastures of blue grass are still the pride of that State, was an enthusiast on the subject ot grass, and probably came as near as any man ever has to getting maximum returns from hij pastures. The year preceding his death, while discussing this topic with the writer, Mr. Crown gave it as his belief that for a series of years the yield per acre from his bine grass pasture was utly two-thirds In value of the beat corn CIO? It was tbje Jo, jajse, Tfh?a

It was considered that the yearly grass crap came without seeding or cultivation, and was harvested by the animala with the mere effort of eatng, while the labor of plotting, planting and harvesting amounted to one-half the value of the corn crop, advantage was plainly witn the pasture. The 3,000 acres of magnificent pastures left by this thoughtful and far-seeing pioneer are still enough to inspire with his enthusiasm every observer who has the privilege of riding through them. Of course every s'ock-raiser caa not ha7e such blue grass Heids as those cf Mr. Brown. Soil and climate are against many who might otherwise emulate, his achievements witn this valuable forage grass. Eat there are forage grasses suited to all localities and couditions of climate known to the United Sti'e". Until these are secured and given their fullest opportunity for bringine forth after their kind no resident has the right to ssy that he has not the opportunity for doing for his locality what James N. Erown did for Central Ilhsnois and other cattle-growing centers of the old West.

II et Way to .Apply Poultry Manure. lTractiCal Farmer. If every farmer, and every keeper of fowls, even on a city lot, only knew how valuable poultry droppings really are not a handful of them would ever be allowed to go to waste. A single teaspoonful where needed will make a thrifty hill of corn, where, without it there might be only a oickly growth of puny stalks. . Professor Volcken, of the Iloyal Agricultural Society of EDgland, advises as the least expense and best way of using poultry manure to mix It with dry earth, and the like into a compost. Mixed with about twice the quantity of dry, earthy matters of this kind, it will soon be reduced into a fairly dry and powdery state, in which it may be readily, sown broadcast or with the drill, and found usefui in prowirg acy kind of ga'den vegetables. For root crops, such as turnips, carrots and mangels, it is advised that poultry manure be mixed, after reducing to a powdery state, with an t qual weight of superphosphate, and the mixture drilled in at the rate of "00 pounds to the acre. In rx akiup poultry manure into compost with earth, Professor Voelcker warns against mixIE quicklime with it, as the effect would be to liberate the ammonia, the most of which would escape and be lost. On the other hand he recommends as a positive advantage mixing soot with this compost. In the abfence of soot, the next be3t thing, in his opinlcn, is to mix in burnt plaster to which a small quantity of superphosphate is added, the free acid of which will eventually prevent the escape of ammonia. A mixture of two parts burnt plaster and one pirt superphosphate may be kept in readines3 to mix with the fresh chicken droppings for the purpose of absorbing the excess of moisture and thus facilitate its beirjg reduced to dry and friable nature. Three patfs of fresh chicKf n manure and one part of the preceding mixture of buret plaster and superphosphate if kept under cover for a few days and turned once or twice during the time, and then passed through a screen or sieve, wiil be found to be more etli-'acious wiien applied at the rae of from W) to pounds to th acre. Cilttre of Cranberries. Cranberry culture stands prominently among our'neglected indus'res. Consumers in the past is.tve been satistil with the yield frcm wild beda, but row, wi'h an increasing merket at Lome and for exporting, those who have luif able land fchould consider the aavantages of Ctilti voting them. Tke tl rat requisite is to secure a p'ece of land thir can be Hooded in wir.Vi', but from which the water can be drawn in the spring. The plat should v2 sufficiently underdrained or ditched to avoid Lohling water stagnant, near the surface. The surface shoull be nearly level. Teat or muck bottoms are the best; clay should be avoided. If there be a regular sod it should be removed, a&d two inches of sand should be spread over the surface. If there be danger of weeds or giio? this may be increased to four inches, it is cot necessary to obtain rooted plants, as vhe cranberry grows freely from cutting''. S3me make small cuttings, broadcast them over the plant and roll; others advocate planting in row,s. If the soil be clean broadcasting is probably the best, as the vines cover the surface sooner and thus prevent the growth of weeds. Spring is the best time to set the plants or cuttings. After stting, the water should be kept near, the surface and gradually arawn ofl as they strike and grow. As to the annual flooding, this should be done about the 1st oi December, and t&? water drawa 0iTKriJcaliy the following spring, froai the 1st to the middle ol May. If a s'ream runs through the n arsh, then in dry weather the rlaoJgctes can be, cjpsed pjr a couple ot days to supply needed moiblure to the p'aats and destroy insect enemies. The favorites are the cLerry and the bugle. A small crop is cfun reaped the second year from pltntiag; a full crop the fourth. The yield varies frcm HO to 2C-0 bushels per acre. Large growers reap the crop with rake?, hut handpicking is preferable, as the berru bring a higher Tgure ii rraaike t. Feed the Cows Well. ll'ialrie Farmer. 1 Seme farmers and dairymen reason rhat when the price of butter is low, it docs not piy to feed well. They say, "Their is no money in the business anyway. The cows will coire out all right in the spring, when the y get on gra--3." ' Guess I won't put any grain into them, end no more hay than they will get alcng with." So they feed lighter, probably do not shelter well, and the cows give a Vtry small quanity of poor milk, fr:n which the women folks can get but little butter, and that of Inferior quality. Any farmer purtuing this course, virtually loäes all the feed he gives his cows, just as an engineer would lose all the fuel he used under a bellt r, if he should keep only fete am enough to move the ergine, but not enough to drive any machinery. Acertain arrountof fo)J is necessary to maintain the life of the c w. and it .is the surplus beyond thh "f i I of maintenance" that returns a proii. Leiv 'Eg plows to rust out in the last furrow, or 1 nplements to rot in the field, is not more ruinous than half-starving cows, under the pretext that dairy products do not bring h:gh prices. If there is any time when dairy citvü should have good care and kooJ feed, it is when butter is low-priced. Carrots cttry. I Corresponded Country Gentleman. 1 Your correspondent, "G. A.," says I do not sow my carrots quick'y enough. I was comparing the, rTjethods of towing by hand and sowinar fy machinery. Eut I dare say that in good, clean gToand, about twice the average could be towel in a day that I have mentioned. My ground was inevitably in bad condition for drilling, necessitating frequent stops: otherwise I thiiak I thould have come up to G A.'s standard for a day's work. Mr.: llowatt refers to the great expense of thinning the carrots when sowed with the drill. A small hoe will do most of the thin ning, and the work is accomplished with no extra later at hoeing t:me. Sowing by hand will not entirely obviate hand-thinning, so I think I will continue sowing with the drill. Mr. Howatt's handling of carrots, etc , with cloth is a remarkable good Idea, and I wish he would tell me whether celery, treated in the same manner,, would do well. I think there is danger, in starting celery in het-beds, of killing it with too much heat; and I was thinking it might do excellently sowed in the open air with the cloth covering, ssy in April. I want it for winter use, and prefer not too rank growth. I hope Mr. llowatt will be of use to me la growing celery better and with more certainty. Th Pip. This disease Is cot recognized by breeders at all. What is termed "pip" is claimed to be the first stages of roup, the sound of "pip" being an effort to sneeze. It is really a cold in the head, which closes the nasal passages, compelling the bird to breathe with ita mouth open, which rapidly takes away the moisture and causes the tongue to become dry, and this has given the came to what jo9 call "pip,", cr bony ntatuco 9a th?

tongue. The sneezing ot fowls, or sound given by them, does not always indicate anything serious, but it denotes that the birds have taken cold, and that something must be done. It is not roup, but the forerunner of it. If not checked, roup will appear and remain, as it is very difficult to cure when once it gets in a flock. The cold may come in a crack, leak or expoaire to too much dampness. Keep the birds confined ia a dry, warm, sunny place for a few days, and feed on warm food. No medicine will be necessary, but lime may be freely dusted in the pouitry-huuse so as to cause them to sneeze and clear their nostrils, and the chences are that in a few days they will be well and lively. - IIow Milk I Made. The secret of how a cow secretes her milk is an interesting matter of speculation. It is generally supposed that she makes it up during the day, and has it all ready to be delivered at night when the milker calls for it ; that is, the has the milk already made and stowed away in her udder. The surprise often cccars when a cow with a small udder gives a large quantity, while the one with a large beg gives much less milk. This is usually accounted for by alleging that one has a fleshy bog, while the other has an udder extending up into the body. Now we have it said that the cow really secretes her milk at the time she is being milked, at least to a certain extent. Frofessor Eallatme says many animals have no milk reservoirs, the lactiferous ducts being connected directly with the milk vesicles, so that no considerable t mount of milk can be carried ready formed. Such, he says. Is the case with the human female, and the larger portion of the milk must be eecreted while the child is at the breast. This is why a cow, from fright or worry, or loss of her calf or chance cf milkers, "holds up" her milk, simply because she has not secreted It, and while that restles", uneasy condition laats it is actually impossible for her tc give down her usual tiow. WUttr Made Hotter. It is possible to make as good winter butter as can be made at any season if food and other conditions are all right If itlacksin color the defect may be remedied by feeding roots with Indian corn meal. The llavor of butter in winter is atfected by the poor quality of hay often fed to cows. The best is reserved for horses, while the cow is given what has been stained or otherwise injured by exposure. Corn-stalks make generally better butter than timothy or clover hy. The linest flavor is imparted by sweaS scented vernal grass, some seed of whih hculd be sown with all seed in gs intend d for cows, either as pasture or for hay. FARM. WOT ES.

The best s: its for wood are also the best for mutton, and it Is necessary that the land be dry, for damp soils are fruitful causes of such diseases as liver rot, riuke and foot ret. Carriages and farm wagons might be made to last twice as long if only a few moments were spent each week during dry weather in tightening up the bolts that hold the wagon together. . A correspondent of the English Farmer' Gazette asserts that rive pounds of coma n white beans ground fine and fed in halfpound doses with bran twie? diily will cure cure the worst case of bloody milk. Feed cows well and keep them well shelter, d and warm the first two or three cold snaps so tkat they w ill not fall oü in their milk, and they will be cpt to keep up a good How through the more severe weather. A successful Canadian dairyman thraks bran, peas and corn mixed the best butterproducing food for cows. Cows should be milked with dry hands. Cows should not be milked in proximity to the dung-pile. It is stated that the seed cl red cedar will germinate readily if it be treated with lye or strong soapsuds, which wiil dissolve the gurriry coycring. After they have been treated in t'.iä way, it is recommended to rub them with sand. All fowh that feather slow'y pre usually hardy. Fcr instance, the Brahmas. It is owing to the fact that the drain on the sjstf m occasioned by quick feathering doe3 not wecken them. Slow leathering while growing is indicative of hardiness. If the new coacerel you have just purchased fignts with the others shut him up in a dark coop in a warm place lor a week or ten cays, feeding sparingly all the time. Alter the time has expired, take him out and put Lim in with the rest, and the chances ore he will not fight again. There is more wool grown on each sheep tli in formerly, the average having doubled in twentj-iive years. In 1SS the product waa two and one half pounds per sheep, while in lkV5 it had risen to live pounds. This is due to the griding up of the common flocks cd improAing them with the me ot merino ranis. If we won id churn the cream at the point of mild acidity, says the New York Tribune, thoroughly wa-h out the buttermilk with weak brine and then salt the butter in a brine bath, instead of working dry salt Into the butter, the consumer would soon cotne to learn that butter has a flavor of its own indepecdent of salt. Never place fresh eggs near lard, fruit, cheese, fish or other articles from which any odor arises. The eggs are extremely active in absorbing power, and in a very short time they are contaminated by the particles of objects in their neighborhood, by which the peculiar acd exquisite taste of a new-laid egg is destroyed. It pays to clean the snow away from the hens. Locomotion is a very difficult matter for poultiy when the snow is deep, an 1 the het swill ofien sutler from hunger rather than undergo the task of traveling in the srovV. After cleaning away the Bnow sprinkle ashes on the ground and change the driakicg water frequently to prevent lt freezing. Some one wants to know how much tofeed 1(4) fowls. In winter give them in the morning six quarts of warm feed, at noon the same amount of wheat or oats and in the evening all the corn they will run after. This is at out the correct amount for laving hens. If they are being fattened feed them three times a day all they will eat up clean. A TVe-sUrn famer advises stringing sesi'm bvtvine the ears tosether with husks in some place where the grain can be saturated with coal smoke. Tte odor, he says, repels sirrels and worms from eating the seods. The seed comes up quicker, the plants pmw more vigorously and ripen several days earlier than from seed not so treated. According to the report of the Nebraska Horticultural Soeiety, that State has now about 250,000 acres of growing forest, In which have been set 000,000. 00) young trees. Besides these there have b en planted over 12,000,000 fruit trees, over 2.500.000 grapevine?, a vast number of berry bushes and plants, and countless oaantities of ornamental sLrnls. The rsch seems to exhaust the sj.1 with reraarlable prodigality.- J he crop m Delaware is said to be b: coming poorer every j ear, and the past season has made it apparent that soils which formerly grew superior peaches have lately.shown a lack of p tency for the production of the crop in its old-time excellence. There may be other causes, but the vitality seems to be rapidly exhausted from the soil by this fruit. The Lronzs turkey is a stalwart bird, and perhaps stalls without peer at the head of the poultry kingdom. The enormous size attained by some specimens of this variety was once considered as something wonderful, but at the present time the valuable trait of If rge size is so well known and sucn a distinguished characteristic of this variety that thousands ef the monster gobblers of the bronze variety are distributed all over the United States. Some idea of the value of water in Southern California may be gained from the opening of the Gsge irrigating canal, near Riverside. Three years ago land sold above Riverside fcr $ö an acre. It waa without water, and was counted valuable for grazing. Mr. Gage made a contract with a large number of owners, to fun&b th?aa atwdAnt wAttt at

$100 per acre. Then he dug an eleven-mile canal, supplied with water partly from the Santa Anna River, but mainly from artesian wells. Recently water was turned into the canal, and land which sold for $5 now sells for $300 an acre. The good common-sense cf the average farmer ought to see, and will soon see, that no one can part with a cow that will produce ten pounds of butter per week on an average for a less sum than 200. For the 500 pounds of butter she produces would afford him $1'X) profit, besides the skim milk and the calf she drops annually. There is some difference, surely, between a cow which will yield $30 worth of butter and one which will yield $125 annually. The former is wort'i juit what she will bring in the best market no mora. Tl e latter is better than money invested at 50 per cent, annual interest, though she stand the owner $250 first cost. An excellent thing to feed to poultry, especially hens and pullets, is parched corn. It makes but little difference how black it is so the grains re'aio their shape. The best plan is to crush it and mix with other meal, as by this means they era sure to pick up a sufficient quantity to do them good. The astive principle of the charred corn is the charcoal, an iDgredient that is put in every eg food and condition powder made. It acts on the secretions of the liver, aids digestion and Invigorates and renews the blood. Try a little powder or crushed parched corn for a few mornings and notiee the wholesome effect. t Some people think that if a certain quantity of seed will keep an animal in good condition, twice as much will keep the animal twice as well. Now, this is a grave' mistake, for when an animal gets too much feed, it suflers immediately. Many of the diseases that fowls are subject to come from overfeeding. A fowl that is stuffed with food does not digest it properly. The digestive organs become weak, and diseases follow, fo. eaost among them beinj the dread e.1 cholera. This is simply a fever caused chKfly by indigestion. AVhen a fowl becomes fat from over-feeding, the blood is Eohoned and the system becomes disordered, ne sick bird poisons another, and thus the disease spreads. LIVE STOCK NO TL.

In hore breeding, it Is as Important that the mare should be perfect as that the stallion should be so. In fact, some consider it more eo, and this is especially the case with the horses of the Arabs, who for centuries excelled all other nations in their breed of horses. Steers and milch cows should never be kept in the same pasture, says the Texas Stockman. Raising beef requires skill. The first re quibite is rapid growth of tie frame, and in the younger dcy3 of the auimal too much consideration can not be given to this matter. Steers when growing convert all their food in the direction of building up the body. There are times when they must receive social attention, different from that given to cows, for success depends upon how the cattle are managed. A ration of cornmeai twice a day with otner feed will make the inilk much richer, and with most cows will make the butter of better color. Winter butter at its best is apt to be too white. It is not a fraud on consumers to use coloring matter on well-made sweet winter butter. The improvemeut in appearance makes the butter really more palatable. Good farmers us3 artificial coloring in the winter when they only make what they use on their own tables. If properly made, winter is as good as the best grass butter. With a rapidly increasing population t' ere will be danger of excessive dearness of meat. i.uch ss prevails in the densely populated crtiL tries of Europe, and from this we can only be saved by such improvement in breeds of stock as will produce beef at less cost. On cheap lands the short horns, aiming at beef production almost exclusively, have been best adapted to this end. But in the oldt-r sections of the country, where labor pr. l skill combine to ofiset the Increas?d pike of land, the llolslem's, bred for milk and tutter as well as beef, will Cvrta'nly have the t reference. The hog makes the followirg suggestion, which is very timely this cold weather as the pifging season approaches: "Don't allow sows in pig to keep to the nest too closely. Make them stir around daily. Too much fat means fewer pigs in a litter and less vitality in what yon do get. A sluggist sow must have a dormant liver, and that" means bad blcod and poor health, both of which are sure to efiect the f tus and cause trouble. Under such ciicttrr.stances the danger cl slinking is ever present. Exercise ii as necessary in the hog as in anything else, ut many scera to forget the fact," Keen th'.s in mind and rouse out sows frequently for a little exercise. There are many farmers who seem njt to realize how much they lose during the year that a little forethought would ' prevent. They will admit that the way in which they feed a certain lot of pigs, for instmce, was' es eonie of the food, but appear to think that the loss is so little each day that it does not amount to anything. They would be surprised if they should ascertain how large a sum represents at the end of the years the total of these small losses each day. Providing a better feeding place to save the food wasted, ard giving better shelter that will effect a saving in the amount required to keep the pigs gaining, will in many places save a handsome sum during the year. The Galioweys are finding favor with the Arizona ranchmen, and the Stock Grower predicts that within three years no more popular breed of cattle will be found on the Southwestern range than the blacks. The Tempe (Arizona) News mentions that the Hon. C. T. Hayden of that place has jast purchased a herd of fifty-one Galloway heifers frcm Missouri parties. He also purchased a thorough-bred Galloway bull, four years old, imported direct from Seotlaud by the Leonard Brcs, of Mount Leonard, Mo. These heifers, as soon as they calve, will form the nucleus for a Urge dairy which Mr. Hayclenhisnowin contemplation. The Galloways are said to be good dairy stock, and, a? lry i LZ7CJ, i" oe just tne oreeouor lae climate of Arizona. At the session of the Indiana Short-horn Breeders several papers were read, and a resolution was adopted favoring the Miller bill, now pending in Congress. An important step was taken by the adoption of a iesOiUtion that the Indiana association should become a nremler of the Consolidated Cattle firowers' Association of Anierics, imsor ganization is composed of breeders of all kinds ot blooded stocK, ana nas tor us purpose the tecuring of laws for the prevention of the spread of cattle diseases. The neces sity of action waa cited, since at Chi cago 3.0C0 head of cattle have been slaughtered to preveni the spread of pleuropneumonia. A resolution was adopted re questing the assembly to publish agri cultural statistics annually instead of bi -aa nually. fprlrg is the usual time when farmers in general Drefer to have their colts dropped: but tome and the number is on the in crease who have trood barns and warm stables prefer the autumn. Their reasons for this are that wo'k is much greater and more driving In spring, and that the autumnfoaling mare can go through it without danger of injury; whereas, if a mare is to foal in the spring, it Is dangerous to use her at all: for in so doioe, she is liable to sink the colt ) rematurely, or cast it dead. In any event, hard work for the dam weakens the offspring before birth and lessens its subse quent growth ana vigor. UOCSDHOLO HINTS. Eurnine coke in the kitchen and laundry stoves saves many a big coal bill and makes a better fire lor such pupose.. A little ammonia and borax in the water when washing blankets keei the iianne soft and prevents shrinking. A lone handed brush.Donr enough to reach thelcei'.irgs, is as important to a good house Jceepex a goo4 prgm; IX the w.&ils ajid

ceiling are lightly brushed before the room is swept the paper will keep clean and fresh much longer. Casters made of leather are a new invention, sure to prove useful. A solid leather caster will save many a rug or carpet. A dustpan full cf clean snow scattered over the carpet before sweeping will make the whole brighter than when swept with a damp broom. Windows and mirrors can be made to shine without loag polishing, if after being washed in hot soapsuds, they are rubbed dry with a newspaper. Colored and black stockings if washed before wearing at all and a little beef's gall put in the water will never fade nor change color either with wearing or washing. Graham Padding. Two cups of graham flour, one cup of molasses, one cup sweet milk, one cup chopped raisins, two teaspoonfuls soda. Steam three hours. Ostrich feathers can be curled at home by holding them over the top of a hot stove or raDge, not near enough to burn, withdrawing for a moment, then repeating again aDd again. Broiled Tripe .When the tripe is well boiled cut in pieces that can be accommodated upon the gridiron and broil quickly. Season with plenty of butter, salt and pepper to taste. To take spots "of paint from woods lay a thick coating of lime, and soda mixed over it, lettlDg it stay twenty-four hours, then wash off with warm water and the spot will disappear. 1 he juice of two lemons in a glass of ice wt'er before goine to bed, and in the morning bti'ore bieakfast the juice of one in wafer, will cure the system of an attack of billiousness. Stain from marble an be removed by making a mortar of lime and strong lye, and spreading thickly oc the discoloration ; leave for several days, then wash off perfectly clean with a scrubbing brush. Housekeepers should not fail to keen a bushel or two of charcoal in the houe with which to make a bed of coals for broiling. Try it, and tee the difference it will make in your steak or chicken or ham. Fish glue in not as generally appreciated in a household as it deserves. It will mend either furniture, glass or china this last so well that the articles can be used constantly, if a little care is used in the washing. Rice Tudding "Without Eggs. Two quarts of milk, two-thirds of a cup of rice, same of sugar, small piece of butter and a little salt ; stir it occasionally until boiling hot, and cook in a slow oven until of the consistency of cream. Eread Pudding. Take one pint of bread crumbs, soaked in one quart of sweet milk, one-half cup whits surar, two eggs beaten thoroughly, one enp of raisins, if desired, heaping teaspoonful of butter, and salt to suit the taste; stir well together and bake. A lately discovered, but extremely simple use of camphor is appreciated in tha household. If the varnish on woodwork or furniture is changed in spots to white from drop3 of cologne or bsyrura or from heated dishes, it can be changed back by rubbing the spot with a cloth wet in camphor. Cleaning Gold Jewelry Any gold jewelry that an Immersion in water will not injure, can be beautifully cleaned bv shaking it well in a bottle nearly half full of warm soapsar-ds, to which a little prepared chalk has been added, and afterward rinsing in clear, cold watt r and wiping it dry. Muffins Cream together one cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar; add three egg3 and one pint of milk, stirring well; then add one iuart of wheat flour, with two teaspoonluls of baking powder and one enpful of yellow Indian meal. Rake in muffin rings in a hot oven. Dried Apple Cake. Two cups of sveet dried apples, soak over night and chop; two cups of molasses, and let it simmer over two hours; when cold add one cup of sugar, two esgs, one-half cup of sour cream, sour milk and butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda, four cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves and one nutmeg. Stewed Tripe Cut the boiled tripe into small pieces and add three or four small oniens; pour over the tripe and onions a litt'e warm water. Let it cook slowly until both are tender and the water nearly boiled away. Then add milk sufficient to make a gocd gravy, a tablespoonful of buvter made smooth in an eqal quantity of flour; 3alt and pepper to taste, and boll three minutes.

SENATORIAL. HUMOR. It's Salt, Hut Heck Likes It" Senator Sawyer's Yarn. Philadelphia Times.) Eveiv little while, when some appoint ment is made that Senator Beck does not relish, he strolls over on the Republican side of the Senate, bends over Senator fcas-yers desk end whispers: "It's salt again, say Sawyer; I ut I like it." Both Senators laugh up roariously at the remarK, wmcn is a by-w rd between them, and the Scotch Kectuckian goes bact to his seat somewnat reconciled to his adversity in the matter of appointments. The story whih explains this pleasantry is one oi tenator fcawyer s. lie came OOWII luwii one uipui caiiy iu me present Administration and found Senator Beck and Senator Harris condoling each other over the President's perverse selection of men to hold oilice in Kentucky and Ten nessee. . . "Well, how do you like this administra tion, anywaj?" asked the Wisconsin benator. "We like it better tt an the l&3t one," re plied Beck. "1 know how you like it, saia oawyer. "I tell you a story that illustrates your case. If not, you've got to own up to just what you think of your President. In early times up In tne pine woe as, wnen our ioiks weren i all millionaires, seme cf us used to get up a chopping syndicate. A dozen fellows, all gcod with the ax and handspike, would club V , -l i r it.. ICCeilltr, CUip in, auu uuy gruu mi iuc winter, and wculd go into the wooas to choo and loe pine. In the spring they sold their loes, subtracted the winters ex penses and divided profits. One fail sucn a party was taaae up m my town, xukj wcic all ready to go into the woods, when some nne lis Led who was eoine to cock. 'I won't,' said one. 'I can't,' said another. A third said he could, but he'd be blamed if he would, rt went on. and nobody would cook. In those time?, as now, a cok got big pay rnt leu thn 50 a month. The syndicate could hardly afford that. Finally one fellow said if they couldn't hire a cook they'd got to have grub, and there was but one way out; they must ao tne cooamg luemsetvea. Hp siiffffpsted that thev draw cuts, and who rpr rot the shortest straw must do the The first man who should com mam of the irrub would have to relieve him. The first meal in camp was dinner. TKfl wiV had seen his mother ceok beans. It looked easy, and he decided to have beans for dinner. Ike put a peck in iV kettle, rhüeked in a bie piece of pork ard a double handful of salt. Io time the rr.en tat down to dinner. Everybody helped himself. The first to dish out some beans put a big spoonful In his mouth. They were smoking hot and somewhat Bait. The fellow spewed the stuff out with a big swear word. These are the doggonedest doggoned beans I Mr te Rtill. I like them l like inem "Xnw. that." said Sawver to his fellow Senators, "Is what you Democrats think. This Administration is Warned salt, but you it it" That's it exactly." said Beck and Harris in eoncert, and ever since the phrase ex presses their feelings. Btosby'a Boots. Colonel John S. Mosby describes the way he was once captured in a Virginia farmMm o.tt- "ThA Federal Maior Frazar's men had jnst gone into camp, and I sent couriers m every direction summoning my men to rendezvous at a certain point, from which I proposed to more and attack Frazar's Mm a Vi hud inst trone Into camn I had no id-? lht he would b- gq th5 oy w

quickly as he was. Accompanied by one man, 1 rode to the house of a man named Lake, about a mile from Frazar's camn, for the purpose cf getting a cup of coSee. As we reached the house my man offered to hold my horse while I went in for my coflee, but on my order he dismounted and entered the house rüth me. It was just after dark, We passed into one of the rooms, and our party then consisted of myself, my soldier, another gentleman and a lady. I was dressed in my usual manner, the stars on mv rnjit-nlrr iniio;nr, m.

rank. Suddenly Major Frazar's men were ou tuimug muug me runa, ioo near to enable me to mount my horse and escape. As me i nion soiaiers approached they saw our two horses standing hv. and ? they surrounded the house. I was standing near a window. A Kchted mti stood on a table near by. As the soldiers approached the house one cf them iuuh. ojiu auu iireu ai me inrouga the window. The hole made in the f!flso hrr ik. bullet is there to-day. I havs been to the uuube aeveraa iimes 6ince tte war, am the man WhO nOW OCCUnies it Sirs b wnnl.1 nnf take $l,0o0 for that pane of glasa. Well, the bul niei tiruca me on the left side or the ab Joen and Passed around in frnnt. tn tha riaVit rr, si ide. In the confnsinn that ernjrro.1 tha fan. die light was extinguished. I walked into an adioinint rnnm. in whi-h tnn.1 Knu.n i took off my uniform coat and threw it under the bureau. I then lay down on the floor and awaited events, my outside garments being jiijr uuois, paniaioons ana a Diue smrt, Ihe Union soldiers entered the rnnm nd iha first thing they did was to pull oft my bOOtS. Subsemientlv Mir Prora- orn'vo.l and asked my name. I gave him a fictitious one. 1 was in terrible agony, but I could not heln lanphinc Whpn n CAl.li'or nn ct. amiLirg the wound, taid, in a pitiful tone. x tor lenow, ne s snoi entirety tnrough the heart.' Locatinc nw honrt in tha aK.'nmon r ' J " v - Mf'VLUll was too funny for a man, even wounded as I wna, iu lauguiDR ai. i aciea my part well tnat 1 succeeded in concealing my entity, and shortly afterward the 1'nmn soldiers left the house. They had been gone but a short time when some of my own men came up ana Dore me away, subsequently I had the bullet extracted, and my daughter now has it in her possession." FULTON'S FIRST BOAT. tecolteetions of One Who Saw Iier on the Way to Albany. Cor.respon'.lenee Euffalo Commercial Advert u er. Your notice of the recent decease of a very aged gentleman who was a passenger on Fulton'8 nut steamboat, built in the year 107. reminds me of the sight of that boat in April, 1M0, when a schoolboy at Newbur?, on the Hudson lliver. About the middle of the day she wes slowly passing up stream from New York, whence she had started the previeus day on her passige to Albany. I; miles distant. As the boat laid I y over night on her early trips, she had tied up the previous night at the wharf of some town below twturg, the latter place beineseventv miles aboe New York. People at the present day probably have no conception of the contrast of Fulton's irst s'eam craft compared with the magnincent ones In present use of several thousand tons capacity. A description of the Cler mont, ker name, in my quite distinct recol lection, is as follows: bte was about 10 ) to 20 feet long, in share much like an Erie Canal freight-boat, but much sharj er at the bow, and floated about as far out of the water as an empty canal-boaL Of how much water she drew I am irnorant, but probably not exceedirg six feet. The wheels on her sides were small, about twelve or fifteen feet in diameter, driven by a small engine, in those days of quite imperfect construction compared with those of the present day. The fuel of her furnace was of light pine wood, and cut from Long Island, as were those of the Hudson River boats for many years afterward. Her speed was apparently cttto exceed five or six miles an hour. Few paf sengers were on board, and as she stopped at each wharf in the town she passed to let on or take on ths few travelers she ad, her passage from New York to Albany and tack wis slow; each protracted to two crthjeedajs, as circumstances might govern. Her measured capacity might be two or three hundred tons, bat carrying no freight other than the baggage of her passen gers. A very nniuue-looking thing she was, and marvelous to the sight-seers who flocked along the shore to see her movements. But . . a El:e proved a succes?, ana wimin a iew yea abetter, larger and more perfect boat succeeded the Clermont, with greater speed and passerger accommodations, bo that steam travel on the river became popultr, and well paid the owners of the craft. Fulton, an j-.ngi:snman, i tnitk, popr in turse. had struggled several years in his experiment?, nut naa workea upaer iae pat . . . . 1 At. A ronage end puree oi one oi tne weainy iivIrc8tcn families located in the vicinity of JiudiOP, men qnne a snipping pon awe I'onihkeensie. The success cf Fulton, coui led with the wealth and political mtiaetce tf the Livingston?, and the new associates connected with them, induced the Legislature of the State to grant them a monopoiy oi steam navigation wuuin iue boundaries cf New York, at least, If not beyend her territory, to such extent that vast fortunes were anticipated in the future from their enterprise. In a few years, however, a weaitny resi dent, Mr. Stevens, at Hoboken, opposite New York Citv. a man of great mechanical genius and experience, built a new and more improved boat than those of the FultDn-Livipgs-ton combination, and put her on pasf ages from Jersey City up the river to Albany and back, which soon engrossed the Donular favor and proved a strong compet itor. The consequence of Stevens' effort w.13 a suit at law in the supreme coart oi we United Slates, nstituted by the faitonLivingston party against Stevens. After a long and costly contest the Court clodded tbat the New York grai.t of monopoly was unconstitutional, and thn i established the rights of Stevens and all others to build and navigate steam vessels on any waters in the United States. After that the father of Stevens and his energetic sons, backed bv their abundant capital, became the largest and most successful steam owners and navigators of the Hudson River and New Jer.cev waters for several years, until they were driven on ana oougni om oy me risios and unconscious "Commodore v anaermit, xchn hnd worked his wav from running a small ferry-boat between Staten Island and Whitehall Dock, in New York, to his suc cessful enterprises of later years. Eeckitary Massisg's statement that the ..0 e tha p.ftmnipnt is Tiovf S100.000. 000 more than the expenditure, and that the . . . . i , rf-, ty-r ,uu ftt U excess next year wiu De nenj üw,, is the knell oi nign tariu. Trouble Ahead. when ihe etlte fails, and sleep grows restw .n.i nnrefrefihinz. there Is trouble ahead. The digestive organs, when healthy, crave food; the norvfiTM Kvstem. when vigorous and tranquil, sine tt nltrbt. A aM fr7wHtr should not be a mere ftppcWU4V " t tizer, nor ase the nerves to be strengthened and .utfcAi hwthpnnat.ied action of a sedative or a tWMiVW . nareoti3. What Is required Is a medicine which fmMcnrateit the Rtomach. and promotes assimila tion of food by the system, by which means the .rvAui vtem. as well as other parts of the phy.ip.i nrnniiin. are strengthened. These are the DAVW V F afrits of HoKtetter's Stomach Bitters, a medtoino whose reputation Is founded firmly In public con- ... . . a w f.fidence. and which pnysicians com menu wr i; tonic, anU bilious and other properties. It is used with the best results In lever and ague, rheumatism, kidney and uterine weakness, and other maladies. You can suppress your cough and qntckly vi...iv,.Mt!nin( nnr Inntrs and air Eassagea, with a few doses of Dr. J. H. Mcean's Tar Wine Lung Balm. 25 cents a bottle. - AS i an after-dinner plU, to promote easy discs i A JSIi RU HS w9EdejIuUy SSSUTv. U?n

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